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National Geographic The Fox and the Shark
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December 8, 1963 a day like any other. |
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At Alldinga Beach, |
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spearfishing championships |
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23 year old Rodney Fox, |
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a life insurance |
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and former champion, |
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He sets his sights on |
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Little does he know that |
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By a great white shark. |
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Through a series of near miracles, |
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Rodney Fox arrives at Royal Adelaide |
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The vascular surgeon there |
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from an international conference |
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with the very latest |
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They go to work on the mutilated body |
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The shark has punctured his left lung, |
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The jaws have bitten |
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gouged skin and muscle |
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and exposed several major organs. |
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According to one surgeon, |
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he would have bled to death. |
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Sewn back together with |
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he lies bedridden for |
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and the awful memory. |
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Do you hope to continue |
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I'll get in the water |
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but I don't know whether I'll go |
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there's been two or three |
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That was Rodney Fox then... |
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And this is Rodney Fox now. |
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Seldom has a single event so |
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I n a way, |
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30 years ago took his young life |
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I n three decades, Rodney Fox |
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into a shark champion and protector. |
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I think that sharks |
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and the shark world is |
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The shark gets a raw deal, |
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because they don't understand |
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I love to see them flying and |
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and I think that most people |
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if the realized they weren't |
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This from a man who was |
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Rodney's life since the attack |
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to overcome his fear by facing it. |
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Today, documentary filmmakers |
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from all over the world |
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travel to Australia to go |
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His knowledge of living |
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Marine biologist Eugenie Clark |
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People who hear about |
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wow, he's an ordinary man like |
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and yet |
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and on top of that, |
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he's telling us that |
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they're good, we should preserve them. |
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So this is what's so |
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the someone who suffered through such |
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can now defend the animal |
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It wasn't always that way. |
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Reliving the shark attack story |
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So many people want |
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how I stuck my fingers |
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how I put my arm around it |
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and how I went up to the |
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And after about eight or nine |
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I read the original |
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I had written immediately afterwards, |
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and I found that I had |
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I was telling people |
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and not necessarily the truth. |
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Time often affects memory. |
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Here the story is only two days old, |
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All I remember is this big thing |
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and it seemed to let go a bit |
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and it still wouldn't let go. |
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The pressure of the water might |
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And I managed to |
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and I was looking for his eyes |
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he managed just to let go and |
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I managed to get to the surface. |
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Very luckily there was a boat just |
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because there was so much blood |
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And they quickly rolled me into the |
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just like this so they |
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As they came to shore on this |
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they drove the boat up onto the shore. |
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And they loaded me onto a |
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the only car in the whole area |
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for about four or five years |
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and they drove it out over the reef |
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over the big lumps |
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Loaded me in the back of it, |
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It was an absolute miracle, |
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especially when they unloaded me out |
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As they did, my wetsuit slid open |
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actually, loops of intestines, |
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I've got a good friend who actually |
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that he stuffed them back |
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They bunched me up. |
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Rodney's wife Kay. |
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I didn't know how bad it was |
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but by then he was up and |
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you know, it's only later |
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when they tell you all the things |
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that you realize just how close it was |
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But everybody in the hospital thought |
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but I knew he wasn't. |
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His attack drew worldwide attention. |
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Rodney became a sensation |
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The public notoriety would set |
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Three months after the attack, |
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Rodney began his return to the sea. |
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But it wasn't easy to |
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The fear of the sharks when I went |
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M y first time my head went underwater, |
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I imagined in my mind sharks running |
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"stop it, you've got to control that." |
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Things would never exactly return |
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His love of the sea was now |
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with his old nemesis the shark. |
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I n 1965, he organized the first |
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The adventure became a docudrama. |
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But danger in the |
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of the most savage hunter of the deep |
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the great white shark |
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the white |
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great white death. |
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Come on you bastard, attack. |
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This is some of the first footage |
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Coming in |
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now! |
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That doesn't taste |
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The theme is revenge a crusade to |
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Death and the battle's almost over, |
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a second maneater who's jaw will never |
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I n those days, people feared sharks |
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because they knew very little |
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They thought that every shark was |
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and there was a big saying |
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at that stage that the best shark |
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The first film |
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"Attacked by a Killer Shark" is about |
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Again, it shows Rodney wielding |
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Time out to reload. |
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The cartridge inside the |
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The tremendous concussion |
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killing instantly. |
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But it does twist |
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I wasn't really after revenge. |
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What I was frightened of |
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and being bitten again. |
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And so I was quite keen to try out |
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that had been invented. |
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And I went underwater and I shot some |
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show that man could |
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Rod's on a killing frenzy, |
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intoxicated with his |
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This is exactly the scene he |
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I n fact, Rodney's attitude |
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a fact obscured |
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I didn't realize or understand |
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that's not the right attitude. |
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We've got to look at it |
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We've got to learn more about them |
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and learn to live with them. |
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As Rodney's appreciation for |
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so too did his expertise |
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I n 1969, he was called into work |
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on a shark movie unlike |
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Has that cage been checked out? |
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Film Producer Peter Gimbel |
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turned to Rodney to deliver |
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Well, generally, after |
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they start really to tear into things |
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And then you'll let |
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I'll push you. |
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The result the critically |
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"Blue Water, White Death." |
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I n the crew was diver |
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The two men would |
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There's gotta be 12! |
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Oh, yeah. |
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Rodney had already done two films |
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and Rodney probably knew more about |
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how to chum in the great white |
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chumming, the putting out |
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in Australia to attract them. |
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So that Rodney was the natural |
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Rodney didn't have a cage back then. |
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Gimbel had the cages. |
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Rodney knew where to |
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and set up the boats. |
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And way back then, in the beginning, |
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Rodney was your man in Australia |
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Sorry about you cage, fellah, |
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How bad is it? |
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What a mess. |
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He bent the cage, Stan? |
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Oh, wait 'til you see. |
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The carnage of earlier films |
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"Blue Water, White Death" marks the |
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between white sharks and human beings |
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one that allows the sharks |
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For Rodney Fox, the occasional |
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to support his young family. |
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So he took up abalone diving, |
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It would put food on the |
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But always, the sharks |
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One of the hardest things |
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18 year period when |
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was when I had to return |
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after I'd been out filming sharks. |
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We had attracted maybe |
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around the boat during the week period. |
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We had them biting |
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and showing these enormous teeth. |
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When the film crew had left |
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I had to make my living again, |
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only a few miles from where we'd |
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I had to put on another hat |
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Sharks don't like abalone. |
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They generally don't eat humans. |
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But the first couple of days |
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I imagined those sharks |
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And sometimes when my knee |
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I wondered whether that was |
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and whether it was biting my leg off. |
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But I knew that it was fear in myself. |
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The danger to abalone divers |
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Some of the best abalone beds |
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where white sharks liked to hunt. |
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But instead of killing the sharks, |
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Rodney and his colleagues designed |
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a protective working cage |
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Then they tested it |
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Watch out for that... Hurry up! |
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It really proves that the cage is safe |
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because you've been involved |
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here swimming around, attacking it, |
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and they've only taken the hose. |
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And if you've got |
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and you can get up to the surface, |
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you'll be safe. |
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Makes the adrenaline pump, doesn't it? |
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The adrenalin really started |
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when Rodney was contracted to coordinate |
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the filming of live sequences |
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for the greatest shark film |
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He had had experience with filming |
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but "Jaws" was a |
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They had sent over a small stuntman, |
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so that the sharks would |
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of course, Bruce was a 25 footer |
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And as we were dressing the little guy |
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one of the sharks came in and grabbed |
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and actually shook the boat physically |
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and it was well over 14 feet long, |
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and a very strong shark, |
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I'm saying to Carl, Quick, |
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The cameraman's ready, |
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and he kept saying, No, no, no! |
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The stunt diver wasn't the only one |
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"Jaws" was great entertainment, |
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and the perception of sharks |
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Nobody realized at that time that it was |
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that was going |
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including a lot of my friends, |
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I had people say to me, |
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I wouldn't even go in the bath now |
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For Rodney, |
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the moment he finally realized |
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And so he set out |
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He started a business an expedition |
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even tourists out into |
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for face to face encounters with |
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These days, |
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it contributes to marine science |
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and it satisfies Rodney's rather |
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Some experience, I'll tell you! |
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This scientific expedition will drop |
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off the rugged coast of |
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and study great white sharks. |
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Rodney's son Andrew |
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if noxious, chore of mixing the key |
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a kind of foul stew that sharks seem |
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Blood, ground tuna, and a little |
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Andrew will create |
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down current from the vessel. |
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Any sharks in the area will find the |
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Marine scientists from the University |
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the strength of a great white's bite, |
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and to identify the telltale sings of |
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a grisly but necessary study. |
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The sharks must be induced to bite a |
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First, they need to be worked |
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Ready now? |
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Okay, drop her in, Andy. |
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Now that the shark has the idea, |
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Keep it in the air anyway, |
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Running tests on the great white sharks |
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We should have an impression on plate! |
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The plate is designed to measure |
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That is amazing. |
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We're looking at the test strip |
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This one is 500 kilograms, |
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One thousand pounds. |
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That one's more than 1, 000 pounds. |
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A thousand pounds per square inch |
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But what exactly is it that draws |
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Is it the smell of prey, |
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or the vibrations it |
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That's a crucial question for divers |
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so Rodney helps set up |
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What I hope to do here is |
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whether the great white sharks |
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whether they can actually see |
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whether they may be |
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Just to see |
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They swim around and around so many |
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and haven't had any true results. |
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I n order to test sight, |
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Lexan plastic to give the sharks |
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An underwater speaker |
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broadcasting low frequency vibrations |
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made by moving prey. |
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A thawed tune will provide scent. |
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Will the sharks show |
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Which one will attract them the most? |
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The adrenalin that rushes in you |
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and as the shark comes in |
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gives you a real rush |
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It's like the first time |
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It's exciting and my heart you can |
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in you beating a little faster |
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you are part of an experiment, |
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that the sharks don't |
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they can get at you or not. |
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It was quite unnerving really, |
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in the middle of the street in the |
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Again and again, the circling |
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and return to the source |
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The proof is clear at close range, |
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not sight or smell, |
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Rows of sensory cells along the flank |
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Well, there's absolutely no doubt in |
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in the low vibrations than they |
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or the tuna... |
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The more Rodney has studied them, |
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the more he has come |
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the great variety of sharks |
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I get lots of pleasure from looking |
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from the carpet shark that lays on the |
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to the nurse sharks that seem to |
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to the beautiful whaler sharks and the |
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There's so many of them the mako |
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All of them have a different feel, |
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a different way to swim, |
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But they're all beautiful |
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and fly through the water. |
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And the biggest and most mysterious |
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It's not just the largest |
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it is, in fact, |
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But despite its menacing |
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this is among the most gentle |
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It eats plankton, not people. |
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Few in number, slow to reproduce, |
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the whale shark is one of the great |
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Whale sharks to diver have been |
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one of the greatest pinnacles of |
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They were the largest shark, |
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they were a shark |
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a friendly shark, all the things |
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Growing to over 50 feet and 20 tons, |
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the whale shark is so big that it |
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They hitchhike harmlessly |
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and eat the food it leaves behind. |
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Ironically, the most |
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is also one of the least understood. |
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No one can say where or when these |
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or even how old they grow to be, |
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but some scientists believe |
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Roaming the tropical ocean in search |
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Now imagine a shark this big |
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a massive, meat eating predator. |
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At one time, such a shark did exist: |
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carcharadon megaladon 50 feet |
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lived during the Miocene ear some |
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It was the largest ocean going |
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Rodney traveled to South Carolina |
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He and naturalist Vito Bertucci |
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will dive in the Cougar River |
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It's a dangerous dive. |
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But this was a hunting and dying |
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and his fossilized teeth |
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The most important thing |
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is just to work you way |
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and down the anchor line |
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you have to be aware |
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and turtles in this area |
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and if you do come up on one, |
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not to be startled by it and if you |
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Alligators, the only danger |
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If you see one come at you |
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all you have to do is dump |
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And they won't come after you. |
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The sharks, if they come up to you, |
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just give them a shove |
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Well, I got my |
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I hope this turns out alright. |
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The water is cold. Visibility is nil. |
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The darkness is decidedly spooky. |
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I had some incredible images of |
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I n these gloomy water, |
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a monster carnivore |
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Within minutes, Rodney finds the first |
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Luckily, of course, |
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You okay? |
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Yeah, why? |
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I dunno if I can get up |
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Just leave your gear on the floor. |
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How do I get this helmet off? |
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I feel a bit like Houdini. |
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Why are they different colors? |
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This one was in the sand. |
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On the sand? |
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Yeah, it the sand |
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You know, when I was heading down |
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I thought, "what am I doing here?" |
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It was dark and crazy and I'm pulling |
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on the rope down there and it was only |
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that I realized there was a |
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and I thought, "I cannot give up now |
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And then I went on and then when I saw |
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that first half a tooth down there |
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"Ah, this is worth it." |
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And then I started looking, looking, |
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that you told me about down there |
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looking, looking, looking for teeth. |
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And, you know, |
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Down in Jacksonville, Florida, |
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fossil teeth and reconstructing |
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It will be the largest shark jaw |
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big enough to swallow a small car. |
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And it has an entire set |
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It has taken Vito 19 years |
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Some 200 fossilized teeth will line |
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adding almost 300 pounds |
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Shark teeth, of course, stand out |
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things knives against their gray body. |
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And of course, if you had somebody in |
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you would look at the revolver too, |
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because it's the sharp pointy end, |
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the point that's going |
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Shark teeth are compelling. |
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It's difficult not to admire them |
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The only part of the shark's |
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these razor teeth are used |
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But despite our worries, |
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First of all, the word shark is such |
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Sharks three or 400 varieties |
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all go together as one name shark |
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Research was done and shows |
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had a higher reaction on the |
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than any other word |
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And so the general public, |
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they talk about something they cannot |
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I n fact, sharks are not all scary. |
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Only a handful are any |
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What they are is |
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As top predators, |
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they help maintain the entire balance |
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Rodney's fascination |
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has taken him all around the planet. |
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His quest: to learn still |
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and it's quest that never ends. |
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Alright, we're gonna place the mask |
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is to put your chin in first and then |
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Here at Walker's Ca in the |
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Rodney and Dr. Eugenie Clark have come |
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On this dive, Rodney and Eugenie |
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that allow them to |
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No metal cages, no Lexan tubes, |
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to show that if you know what you're |
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They've picked a dive center |
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to lure large numbers |
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It's just beautiful to |
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The nurse sharks |
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They certainly don't seem to be paying |
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What sort of food or fish do these |
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The nurse sharks eat the |
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clams and any kind of fish |
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Genie, he's eating your hair. |
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Watch out! |
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They're trying to eat your hair, Genie. |
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Trying to eat my hair? |
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I really like that, Rodney. |
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He just stopped then |
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While the nurse sharks |
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the blacktips that follow |
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That one just tried |
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How about staying close to me? |
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It's getting a bit exciting here. |
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How many species do you |
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Well, it looks like three species |
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the gray reef or the reef shark, |
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a lot of these nurse sharks, |
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I don't know if there are two species |
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Yet, even the blacktip |
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seem more interested |
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There are almost 80 sharks |
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And for the most part, |
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Funny how when we're down here |
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we've both stopped feeling that |
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in the situation we're |
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I n fact today, people threaten sharks |
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Sharks are being killed |
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sometimes purely out of |
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I n some of the shark tournaments, |
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But I think we're |
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There's too much now on television |
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and people like Rodney Fox who are... |
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telling people what good sharks can be |
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of how, if you understand a shark, |
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and they are not |
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They're like puppy dogs, aren't they? |
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Some sharks you can swim with, |
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It takes some education, experience, |
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and common sense to figure out |
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Silkie sharks, for instance, |
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And with silkies, there's a twist, |
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as Bahamian Stuart Cove |
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And when we go down there, |
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Yes. It's important when we're |
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to keep our hands down, |
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because they do have teeth, |
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but when they swim by us, if we grab |
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it will paralyze the shark |
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you can actually roll them over |
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We use this maneuver to actually |
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and so we sort of do the sharks |
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and we remove the fish hooks |
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Paralyze the sharks |
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they'll come right back to you |
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Well, I'm game. Let's try it. |
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Silkie sharks are so called |
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because instead of the usual |
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theirs is smooth as silk. |
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Reaching up to nine feet in length, |
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to the south of Walker's Cay. |
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Grabbing silkies by the tail |
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but divers in the area |
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ever since they first set out to |
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That's when they discovered |
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It's called tonic immobility, |
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and it's a quirk of |
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a kind of temporary paralysis, |
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brought on by twisting the sharks' |
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I don't believe that. |
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They're right behind you. |
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It's incredible. |
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I've never experienced |
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So silkies are friendly. |
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What about any others? |
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We've got no dangerous |
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Unfortunately, two weeks ago, |
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we had a longline boat come into our |
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up in the reef area on the |
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and caught 35 of our shark population |
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They were like our kids. |
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It was like having your pet dog killed. |
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And we had a great affinity, |
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a great affection for |
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Well, |
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I really knew nothing about sharks. |
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This is one of 350 varieties |
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And you just have to find out |
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or manbiters, as they say. |
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I'm less frightened now than I was |
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because I've learned to find out |
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and which ones aren't, |
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which ones you can handle, |
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I think they're beautiful. |
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Hi Joe |
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Felicity, Margaret |
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boys and girls, |
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many different shapes and sizes. |
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It's my belief that education will stop |
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this massacre of all the sharks |
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There's a great upwelling |
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Hey, let the sharks live, |
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let's find out how we can enter |
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having to kill them all off. |
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And it's the education of our |
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and I see a large uprising of it young |
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Don't throw any plastic in the water, |
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why are you killing that shark, |
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why is that photograph |
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It's really great to see that we are |
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For Rodney Fox, the past 30 years |
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a journey with the shark. |
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It was a voyage that started |
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a voyage into the face of fear. |
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Over 30 years, Rodney has traveled |
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to understanding and life, |
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from the early days |
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to the present when harming them, |
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I n a way, he was chosen on |
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to speak for the sharks, |
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chosen for a special lifelong bond. |
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For while the great white would |
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the next 30 years would |
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Thirty years ago, I had no idea |
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I'd be dragged into a whole lifetime |
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And when I look back now, |
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that I've worked with |
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And what I've tried to do over |
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is to get the respected filmmakers... |
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and the scientists that know |
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to learn more about the great white |
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and get them to portray |
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that we have to learn to live |
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And I look back over |
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that slowly it's been |
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and all of the people agree |
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"Let the sharks live!" |
